After the war he fled to Latin America and was living in Bolivia when the Klarsfelds revealed his whereabouts in 1971.

After being extradited to France in 1983. he was given a life sentence in 1987 and died in prison in Lyon in 1991.

Who else was tracked down?

The Klarsfelds also tracked down members of France’s collaborationist Vichy regime including René Bousquet, Jean Leguay and Maurice Papon.

Mr Klarsfeld escaped the Nazi Holocaust in Romania when his family moved to France.

The daughter of a German soldier, Beate left Germany in 1960 and married Serge in Paris in 1963.

The couple dedicated their lives to the pursuit and the prosecution of former Nazis by what they have described as both “legal and illegal” measures, forcing French people to confront the truth of their compatriots’ widespread complicity in Nazi crimes.

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